{"id":50024,"date":"2013-04-05T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=50024"},"modified":"2013-04-05T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:52:30","slug":"alejandro-zambra-santiago-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/05\/alejandro-zambra-santiago-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro Zambra, Santiago, Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Alejandro_Zambra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Alejandro_Zambra.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro_Zambra\" width=\"425\" height=\"650\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Alejandro_Zambra.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Alejandro_Zambra-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure that my little studio is the best place in the house to write. It\u2019s too hot in summer and too cold in winter. But I like this window. I like those trees crossed by power lines and that slice of available sky. The silence is never absolute, or maybe it is\u2014maybe my idea of silence now includes the constant barking of dogs and the uneven roar of motors. I take enormous pleasure in watching passersby, the odd cyclist, the cars.<\/p>\n<p>When the writing isn\u2019t happening I just sit there, absorbing the scenery, adoring it. I\u2019m sure those minutes, those apparently lost hours, are useful in some way, that they\u2019re essential for writing: that my books would be very different if I had written them in another room, looking out another window. &mdash;Alejandro Zambra<\/p>\n<p><em>Translated from the Spanish by Harry Backlund.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. 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